The Art Order - Can Personal Work Pay?

Javier Charro Martínez was born in León in 1980 and moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria when he was but months old. His father, who had been a painter in his youth, passed on his enthusiasm for art to his son. Javier and his brother shared their hobby and spent hours painting influenced by fantastic art and American comics.

After collaborating in an animated short film in 2003, he starts publishing illustrations for role-playing games. From then on, he combines his career in architecture with his work as a freelance illustrator.

In the summer 2010, he decides to concentrate on illustration, starting new projects and accepting more orders.

During these last years he has published hundreds of illustrations in different media, such as novel covers, mobile games, role-playing games and miniatures, sets of cards, magazines, etc.  Lately, he is also in charge of drawing and colouring the comic of the popular game Blood and Glory: Legend, embarking, thus, upon graphic narrative, too. Many have entrusted him with the images of their products, his clients include Fantasy Flight Games, Dream Pod 9, Glu Mobile Inc., Cryptozoic, Mongoose Publishing, Hero Games, Team Jabberwocky, Crafty Games, Moon Design Publications, Nosolorol, Edge publishing, Holocubierta, Mundos Épicos and Editorial Sombra among others. In 2011, the prestigious Ballistic Publishing selects two of his works among those of world-class illustrators for EXOTIQUE 7 and two of his pictures became part of the 2012 S-Artbook (Spanish Art Compilation), which compiles the best national illustrations.